Dennis Novak and Emil Ruusuvuori will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Open Sud de France for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 2:30 pm on COURT 1. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emil Ruusuvuori who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emil Ruusuvuori is the pick to win this match.
Emil Ruusuvuori -> 1.61
Dennis Novak -> 2.20
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Dennis Novak
Ranked no. 93 (career high), Novak will start his run in Montpellier after he played his last match at the Australian Open where he lost 6-7(4) 1-6 6-2 6-3 6-4 to Hurkacz in the 1st round the 21st of January.
Novak has a 4-3 win-loss record in 2020, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Talking about his overall career, The Austrian has an overall 100-107 record. He has positive 20-19 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in Montpellier
The Austrian didn’t play in Montpellier in 2019.
Emil Ruusuvuori
Ranked no. 101 (career high), the Finn reached the 1st round after defeating Matthias Bachinger 6-4 6-4 and Nicolas Mahut 6-3 3-6 7-63.
In the qualifications, Emil defeated Mahut (6-3 3-6 7-63). During the match Ruusuvuori scored 96 points vs Mahut’s 91. The Finn was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
Talking about serving, Ruusuvuori blasted 10 aces and he committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Emil Ruusuvuori was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (40/52) of his 1st serve and 61% (22/36) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent his to concede the serve twice. The Finn broke Mahut twice after converting 29% of his break points (2/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Ruusuvuori has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
Ruusuvuori has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 6 years having won 75% of his matches (76-26). 2-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. Regarding his performance on the same surface of this event, Ruusuvuori has a 35-20 win-loss record in the last 6 years on indoor hard courts.
Emil’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Canberra Challenger.
The Finn has a 8-2 win-loss record in 2020, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Montpellier
Emil didn’t play in Montpellier in 2019.
Head 2 Head
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- Norbert GombosGombos – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (3-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Aljaz BedeneBedene (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Gregoire BarrereBarrere – Joao SousaSousa (6-2 7-66) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Sergiy StakhovskyStakhovsky – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (0-3) – See H2H details
- Gilles SimonSimon – Richard GasquetGasquet (2-8) – See H2H details
- Adrian MannarinoMannarino – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (0-0) – See H2H details
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-2) – See H2H details
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Gregoire BarrereBarrere (0-0) – See H2H details
- Enzo CouacaudCouacaud – Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic (0-1) – See H2H details
- Alexander BublikBublik – Henri LaaksonenLaaksonen (1-0) – See H2H details
- Emil RuusuvuoriRuusuvuori – Dennis NovakNovak (0-0) – See H2H details
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Feliciano LopezLopez (0-0) – See H2H details
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (0-1) – See H2H details
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Mikael YmerYmer (1-0) – See H2H details
